Author: Lucia Schnell
ArcTanGent Festival Finalises 2026 Line-Up with Cardiacs, MØL and More All good things come in threes, and for the third and final time (at least for this year) ArcTanGent Festival updates its line-up for August 2026. The avant-garde musical mix clearly wasn’t finished yet — there are simply too many talented artists capable of filling […]
NWOBHM Veterans Raven Bring 40-Date Tour Across North America USA, take note — the sleeping beast is waking up. A piece of British metal history is crossing the ocean as Raven aim to revive the New Wave of British Heavy Metal a few decades later. They should be capable of it. After all, the Gallagher […]
Download Festival 2026 Expands Line-Up with A Day To Remember, THE PRIMALS and More The already highlight-packed line-up of Download Festival 2026 apparently hasn’t caused enough chaos yet and now releases a second wave of artists — names that are hard to greet with anything other than an approving nod. A musical mix is good. […]
Prog For Peart Festival Returns to Oxfordshire for Sixth Year A festival with heart — and a reason for it. Promised is a place that brings boutique prog and prog metal fans together. A quality that can probably be attributed to many events, but Prog For Peart truly means it and now heads into the […]
2000Trees 2026 Reveals UK Exclusives and a Genre-Spanning Line-Up for July Festival season is knocking. Just a few more months to endure, and then your spine will once again be burdened with relentless headbanging and enthusiastic nodding along. 2000Trees Festival is kindly prepared to support you through it. Renowned and repeatedly awarded, 2000Trees is here […]
Iron Maiden Announce EDDFEST at Knebworth to Celebrate 50 Years of Maiden No Eddie glory, no Maiden story: 50 years of Iron Maiden. And how do you celebrate that properly? With their own festival, of course. Baptised after the beloved mascot himself, two days of EDDFEST promise to pull fans young and old straight into […]
ArcTanGent Turns August 2026 Into a Genre-Spanning Rock Showcase Time to empty your wallet and open your calendar: festival season is at the door, and it doesn’t get much wilder than this. Enter the highly renowned ArcTanGent Festival. If anyone can mix novelty with rock extravaganza, it’s ArcTanGent. Crowned Best Small Festival at the Festival […]
Powerwolf Howl Back with New Live Album Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle) Powerwolf: a band that truly lives up to its name. Today, Friday the 13th of February 2026, the German metal giants release their new live album Wildlive (Live at Olympiahalle). A veritable metal operetta, steeped in theatrical drama and symbolism, recorded during the Wolfsnächte […]
W.A.S.P. Announce the “1984 To Headless” 2026 North America Tour with Special Guests KK’s Priest USA & Canada: today, there’s something to celebrate. Over four decades of W.A.S.P. — and more than four decades since their self-titled debut album was dropped. Fittingly, the pioneers are marking the occasion with the “1984 To Headless” 2026 U.S. […]
Smith & Kotzen Announce UK and European Tour for 2026 A guitar duo with iconic musical expertise is ready to prove a point once again: Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden and string-instrument icon Richie Kotzen are taking their latest release Black Light / White Noise on tour. The wait is short — it all kicks […]
Def Leppard Launch “Rejoice” Ahead of Caesars Palace Residency and Summer 2026 Tour They don’t need a profile write-up: the great Def Leppard are once again stepping onto the grand stage of rock ’n’ roll. What once belonged to the hip-swinging King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, is now being conquered yet again by […]
CARPENTER BRUT Announces New Album Leather Temple If anyone can unite worlds, it is Carpenter Brut. All the better, then, that he is about to unleash his brand-new album Leather Temple on February 27th via No Quarter Prod / Virgin Records. Epic heaviness meets neon-drenched cinematography. Immersion into a dystopian world is the guiding principle […]
